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United StatesHi my friends, @Nana moon 27, @Jozilla, @suzzee2000, @new knee in June, @dogwheels, @kneeper, hope all is and had a pain-free weekend. After yesterday I had my moments. Went to church with Mama and home health aide then to a diner afterwards for lunch. By the time I got home late afternoon, both knees were hurting (ice and elevate) and all I could see was my way to the bed. I woke up after a nice nap and my younger son and I went outside in the front yard and did a little spring cleaning. I dead headed a few of the hydrangea plants in the front and swept some leaves. Came home and yep kneeper had a whirlpool bath (my saving grace), you too can have one... did the ironing I thought I was going to do yesterday and I did do some grocery shopping on the way home. Before I had RA, I had so much energy so I have to get used to the fact that I have to slow down and with having TKR I really need to slow things down. When I have that burst and feel fairly well and the weather had finally broke here, it's difficult to keep still. And I love to plant and garden. I just need to do a little at a time. Hope everyone had a good Palm Sunday and good Passover, Easter, and a good week. Thanks for all of your well wishes and wonderful hugs as always. 
my kids would follow me!
I bought some hanging pansies for my back deck, I can look
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& want you feeling better
Will pick my mom and home attendant up, and go to church. My son is cooking.. He and my daughter-in- law and younger son live with me 
because I could barely walk into the house to change my shoes and realized my knee was to painful and swollen to go anywhere. I iced the knee, as a hot bath was being run. 
Took pain medication and got in bed with lap top and leg elevated. It took a little while more than an hour for pain to begin to subside. When it did I was able to have some of the delicious lasagna that my son cooked. Anyway I decided to get on the stationery bike to see if I could still do it and if it would help with some of the discomfort. I was on it for about 6 mins since it is like starting back and I was a little short of breathe with the asthma I had to stopped. The knee did feel better afterwards 
. I am going to go back to the stationery bike at least 3-4 times a week even if I am totally fatigued 
. Even though I am up and down all day at work the bend of the stationery bike is different so I will make it a point to do it and increase the time that I was on the bike which was 10min. I have done 15 mins after I first stopped PT. I was beginning to thinkk at 6 months I need to be doing a little better than this. Even though I do have RA which does hinder me a lot f the time. I see the difference I feel with just a few minutes of exercise. All right gotta get to sleep now. Working tomorrow but going in a little later. Thanks for listening.. 
. Was getting worried there. Everyone have a good nite and no pain drama tomorrow for all of us! 
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and bed thing and this time went straight to sleep. Now I am awake I can thank you guys so much for your well wishes, warm thoughts, and kind words. 
Hang in there I hope it will be soon. Are you on a Dmard and pain med a well? Kneeper, I have been on most of the biologics and now on Rituxan. I am on Plaquenil which was recently reduced to once a day as the Rheumatologist thinks I need t wear off of this as I have been on it for eight years. Not certain Plaquenil is doing much now anyway, and MTX tabs, I may need to go up on. Kneeper you are so right, it is so tough hurting all over. Seems like when RA starts to bother me the op knee starts to act up too. Precip and a change in weather do affect the knee and the RA. A few times the left knee has been a little sore, but I try to ignore that as at this point I am not ready for another knee op. I am still reeling from the first one, physically, mentally, and financially. No can do right now. When the pain occurs like it happened like last night I just have to take my pain meds, go to bed and be still. I have been dealing with this RA stuff for the last 10 years and have been on so many different biologics and Dmards since then trying to find the right combo that works for me. I came home tonight and iced the op knee as it was sore. I wonder what the OS doctor will have to say. Actually today was/is my 6 month mark. Tomorrow OS appt. I just think things take time to heal and I am on my feet up and down 5 days a week and my legs get tired. And the clinic has been so busy for the past few weeks. Also we have been working short -staffed as one nurse is out and another nurse will be going out for TKR with the same doctor who did mine as she was impressed with him and the good ob he did on my knee.
Well at least you do have a date for having it done, but September though it seems far away will be here in no time. My son older one is 33 years old and the younger one is 24.
. Sometimes when our children cook they do it well. When they don't, they don't do it at all. Some do and some don't. I am certain yours have their niche. Mine don't like the clean up part, but when the older one cooks I have the the younger one empty the dishwasher. I usually fill it as he would just toss the dishes in and half my stuff would be chipped and broken.
The older one took a liking to cooking by watching his dad (rest his soul) who would cook gourmet style. So my oldest is gourmet all the way. Everything he cooks takes better than restaurant food and he enjoys cooking 
. He is a way better cook than I am so for now I sit back and thank the Lord that he and his wife are with me for now. My DIL (daughter in law) cooks well too and sometimes both are in the kitchen cooking away. She my DIL also happens to have RA which I diagnosed right before they were married. She looked like the spitting image of me when I was having a flare and I sent her right away to my Rheumatologist. Sure enough that is what it is. 
Thank you all for thinking about me. So much appreciated.
which was taking forever to obtain and when the doctor did give the company information the company said they did not receive all the info, so the pain management doctor switched me to ER Nucenta which seems to hold me. 
